The driver from Team SSR Performance, who shares the car with Christian Engelhart, went out on track towards the middle of qualifying and set his final hot lap eight minutes before the end of the 30-minute session. With a time of 1.26.913 minutes, the Bavarian was the only driver to beat 1.27 minutes. This pole position is the first for both Ammermüller and his outfit in their first full season in the ADAC GT Masters. It is also the first pole for the Porsche 911 GT3 R from the 991.2 series. Ammermüller also won the Pirelli Pole Position Award which the exclusive tyre partner of the Super Sports Cars League has just begun sponsoring. He will receive a top-quality Montblanc case.

"My quali session was just perfect," he said after going quickest. "I posted a great lap and the team's timing was spot on. I had no traffic on my lap. We changed one or two things on the car, as it didn’t go so well yesterday. We were right to do so, as everything was fine today. We obviously want to try to maintain our position in the race. I'm confident, but you have to make it round the first lap and get through. I hope the race later will be dry, because qualifying just now went really well."

Championship leader Maro Engel in the best-placed Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo was 94 thousandths of a second slower than Ammermüller. The German shares the drive in the car prepared by local outfit, Toksport WRT, with Luca Stolz. The Porsche of Klaus Bachler and Simona De Silvestro followed closely behind with a 1.27.070.

Dennis Marschall and Carrie Schreiner from Rutronik Racing in fourth were the best-placed Audi drivers. Marschall’s personal best time was 1.27.108 minutes. Fifth place went to the Mercedes-AMG GT3 driven by Marvin Dienst and Philipp Frommenwiler (Schütz Motorsport).

Defending champions Patric Niederhauser and Kelvin van der Linde, who achieved best time twice in FP1 on Friday, will start out seventh on the grid in Saturday's race at 1.05 pm in the second Audi from Rutronik Racing. The race will be broadcast live by SPORT1 and can also be watched online as live stream at sport1.de, adac.de/motorsport and youtube.com/adac.

In qualifying, just one second covered 26 vehicles in all. As regards the field of 35 starters as a whole, they finished within a mere 1.7 seconds of one another.